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WRENCH. APPLICATION FILED JULY 18. 1907.

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C HARLES O. EVERHART, OF GIRARD, OHIO.

WRENCH.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 18, 1907.

Patented April 7, 1908.

Serial No. 384,426.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES O. EVER- HART, a citizen of the United States, residing at Girard, in the county of Trumbull and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wrenches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of wrenches known as buggy or carriage wrenches, and has for its object to provide improved means for holding the nut in order that it may be removed and replaced without soiling the hands.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a plan view of the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2 illustrating the operation of the holding means.

In the drawing 5 denotes the handle of the wrench having at one end a series of rigid jaws 6, and at the opposite end a socket 7 which is offset from the handle and receives the axle nut or the like. These parts constitute an ordinary form of buggy or carriage wrench, and nothing is claimed with respect thereto.

The device for holding the nut in the socket 7 comprises pins 8 which are loosely mounted'in diagonally opposite transverse holes 9 made in the side walls of the socket. The pins are long enough so that they can engage the sides of a nut within the socket, and they are pressed inwardly against the nut with sufficient force to hold it in the socket, by flat springs 10. Said springs are secured at one end to the outside of the side walls of the socket as indicated at 11, and at the opposite end they are connected to the pins 8 in any suitable manner.

In use, the nut is placed in the socket and turned off the axle in the ordinary manner, the pins 8 first being withdrawn and then released to engage the sides of the nut as clearly shown in Fig. 3. After the nut has been removed from the axle it will be securely held in the socket by the pins.

The holder herein described can be readily applied to any ordinary buggy or carriage wrench without modifying its structure in the least, and by its use the nut can be readily removed or replaced without danger of soiling the hands, and it is also prevented from falling to the ground and thus becoming soiled.

By arranging the pins 8 diagonally opposite each other the corners of the nut are jammed against the walls of the socket by reason of which the nut is gripped in four different places and, therefore, more securely held in the socket.

I claim 1. The combination with a wrench having a nut socket, of a holder comprising diagonally opposite pins loosely mounted in the walls of the socket and engageable at one end with a nut therein, and springs secured to the outside of the socket walls and connected to the other ends of the pins.

2. The combination with a wrench having a .nut socket and diagnonally opposite transverse openings in the walls of the socket, of a holder comprising pins extending through the openings into the socket and engageable with op osite sides of a nut therein adjacent diagona ly opposite corners thereof, and springs secured to the outside of the socket walls and connected to the pins for pressing them into engagement with the nut.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. EVERI-IART.

Witnesses:

JNo. E. STRINGER, THOS. H. MILES. 

